Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-08-27
Personal.

St. Gaudens, the New York sculptor, /!
making a bust of Mrs. Cleveland.
Lord and Lady Randolph Churchill are
living in retirement near Vienna.
Cresus Mackay says that he finds nothing
in European capitals to equal the comforts he
enjoys in New York.
The Shah of Persia is gradually loosing
his hearing. Two ear trumpets have been
ordered by his physicians from Paris
| Justice Field of the Uoited States Supreme
! Court, thinks the division of California into
two states is sure to occur.
The Emperor of Brazil not only planted a
tree in the ground of NJ. Flammsrion, the
| French astronomer, but dug the hole to con
tain the tree.
| Prince Albert of Monaco, who has been
visiting Bar Harbor in his yacht, has regis
tered vow against matrimony. He is de
voted to scientific pursuit and has an enor-
nous income.
Prince Bismarck will celebrate the twenty
fifth anniversary of his assumption of the
offices of Prussan foreign mirister and
Pruseian prime minister on September %
aud October 5 respectively.
Senator Jones of Nevada, il in fair way
fully to retrieve his financial fortunes. The
mines on Douglas Island. Alaska, in which
the Senator is largely interested, are paying
at me rate OF SlbD,DDU per nontn
Dr. Evans, the celebrated American dentist,
of Paris, has been sta ing at Cowes on a
visit to the Prince of Wales, and he was
several times received at Norris Custle by
the G rmsn Crown Prince and Crown Prin-
cess.
Isaac w Phelps, of New York, has passed
his summers in Saratoga for the last fifty.
three years. He is now nearly "a years Of
age, but is in good health and has clear and
active intellect. His fortune is estimated at
$40. 000, 900.
President Grevy, Of France, is spending
the hot summer days with otto and dtgnitate
on his handsome estate at Mont Sans Vaudrey.
Every other day he goes ont shooting, and
ia quite content when he bags half dozen
brace of quail.
The Empress of Austria has kind heart
While she was at Cromer this summer, a
fisherman was drowned there. She went to
his cottage alone, broke the news as tenderly
as possible to the widow. and left her a purse
containing $1,000.
Arnold B. johnson. Charles Summers pr-
vate secretary, speaks of the great states
mans sweet tooth in current magazine
article. Summer was especially fond of
chocolate creams, and held that so long as
he could eat candy his digestion was in good
"
of whskey but once.
The Rev. Dr. c. A. Bartol has the reputa
ton of being the richest clergyman in the
Unitarian church. He is a large real estate
owner in Manchester. Mass, where his
light little figure may be seen any morning
in his row boat pulling a vigorous stroke,
with gray flannel shirt and big straw hat and
face well bronzed with exposure, looking the
picture of happiness and content
The Rev. Myron w. Reed, of Denver, who
was mentioned as a possible candidate for
the pastorate of Plymouth church, is described
as man of remarkable eloquence, but
Astounding in eccentricites. He for many
years preached in indianapolis, and in the
streets he looked like a well to-do farmer,
wearing slouch hat and countri6ed look
ing suit of clothes. Before leaving Indian
apolis he ran for Congress- but was defeated.
Pere Hyacnthe is living in the suburbs of
Paris. He is chiefly atfected-patronzed,
one might say-by the evangelical English,
and several noble dowsgers are Madame
Loyson's intimstes. The Loysons exc out
their income by taking boys into the family
for instruction. The household also com
prises some young priests of the new cult
These are rendered useful in various ways.
young boy, an inmate for some time of
household, says that they fetch and carry,
and that on one young priest devolves the
duty of keepng the coal scuttles full.